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Adjusting For Speaking Rate When Perceiving Speech In Background Noise., Dawson C Stephens
Adjusting For Speaking Rate When Perceiving Speech In Background Noise., Dawson C Stephens
College of Arts & Sciences Senior Honors Theses
Speech perception is a very relevant concept occurring every day. Acoustic context effects such as temporal contrast effects (TCEs) influence perception significantly. For instance, when a faster context sentence is spoken, the participant should perceive the following target word as slower and more like /t/ in “tier”; when a slower context sentence is spoken, the participant should perceive the following target sound as faster and more like /d/ in “deer”. Recent work by Bosker et al. (2020) concluded that selective attention (directing attention to a specific stimulus while ignoring surrounding stimuli) had no effect on TCEs, suggesting they were automatic …